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By: Bikes Under £100 | Cycling UK

Bikes Under £100 | Cycling UK — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:55:53 +0000

[...] are bikes on sale for less than £100. This will be from the likes of Cycle King, Amazon and Asda. As you can imagine you get what you pay for. It’s hard to maintain the bike as the plastic [...]

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:56:23 +0000

I used to work for a real low-end bike shop for a while, cheapest possible imported bikes. The main problem used to be that no matter how I (Cytech bike mechanic) set up the gears with care, usually involving repositioning the front mech from its factory incorrectly-fitted position, people just wouldn’t “get” that with the cheapest components, gear changes would need to be “helped” by the rider, and that just because it said “index” somewhere, gear changes wouldn’t be slick and silent every time, and demand ‘Super Record’ performance from SunRace and ChangStar components.

Sometimes with the really stubborn bikes and awkward customers, I used to swap the chain for a sachs one from stock when the boss wasn’t looking – it usually made the vital bit of difference!

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:44:51 +0000

Two bikes from the german discounter aldi for 350 $
do for me since two years good services.

Cheap Bikes at Asda this are instrument of torture

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:21:44 +0000

If you buy a bike from Asda, you know what you’re going to get. And it’s not going to be great.

By: wildeny

wildeny — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:25:46 +0000

I also read the news on BikeRadar.com
Certainly it’s a shame that Asda sells the bikes with the forks on the wrong way. But I think the cheap bikes have their own merit.

They are cheap and they can get you to anywhere in the neighborhood. You don’t have to worry about the bike being stolen or getting rusty in rainy days.

I bought a single-speed bike in a discount store in Japan for about 7500 yen, including the charge of a basket. For two years, I didn’t have any problem with it, not even a flat. Residents there often ride bikes (three speeds) from discount stores.

The bike I’m riding for commute was also bought in a discount store. I’m thinking about getting a new one. Maybe not from a discount store this time, but I still don’t want to spend a lot on a commute bike which needs lots of care.

The only advice for buying bikes in discount stores is that get the bike without any suspension. Even a single-speed is enough.

But when I go for a real ride, I ride my Fuji road bike or KHS folding bike.